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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795105003321

Titolo

Building categories in interaction : linguistic resources at work / / edited by Caterina Mauri, Ilaria Fiorentini, Eugenio Goria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

90-272-5899-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (475 pages)

Collana

Studies in Language Companion ; ; v.220

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Categorization (Linguistics)

Cognitive grammar

Conversation analysis

Conference papers and proceedings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Chapters are based on contributions to the workshop Building Categories in Interaction: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Categorization, held in Bologna on October 19-20, 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book addresses the topic of linguistic categorization from a novel perspective. While most of the early research has focused on how linguistic systems reflect some pre-existing ways of categorizing experience, the contributions included in this volume seek to understand how linguistic resources of various nature (prosodic cues, affixes, constructions, discourse markers, ...) can be 'put to work' in order to actively build categories in discourse and in interaction, to achieve social goals. This question is addressed in different ways by researchers from different subfields of linguistics, including psycholinguistics, conversation analysis, linguistic typology and discourse pragmatics, and a major point of innovation is represented in fact by the interdisciplinary nature of the volume and in the systematic search for converging evidence"--